Ludwig Von Mises

Ludwig von Mises was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, and almost certainly the most significant free-market economist. Mises played a major role in the development of the Austrian School of economics, whose exponents - including Nobel laureates like F. A. Hayek, Milton Freidman, and Gary Becker - radically transformed the "dismal science." In this volume, Israel Kirzner follows Mises from his famous Privatseminar in Vienna - which included luminaries such as Hayek and Eric Voegelin - to his reluctant emigration from Geneva and his last years at New York University. Kirzner illuminates the sources and forces behind Mises' intellectual development. In so doing, he provides a useful and understandable overview of the principles of Austrian economics and the laissezfaire economic policies that became associated with it.

Israel M. Kirzner received his Ph.D. under Mises in 1957, and has been on the faculty at NYU ever since. The author of eleven books, editor of five volumes, and author of over a hundred scholarly articles, Professor Kirzner has during his career lectured widely on Austrian economics at universities and conferences around the world, and has played a leading role in the late-twentieth-century revival of Austrian economics